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I've always questioned this for the longest time until I've finally started to care about my physical health:

It has to do with their body's overall fitness. There's a lot more to fitness than BMI. Something like having stronger leg muscles or a stronger heart or a larger lung capacity or being more flexible effects every single physical motion, meaning the total sum of physical motion taken in those 8 hours is far less taxing on their bodies than someone who is less fit. This obviously also translates over to the actual exercise.

When I started out on my treadmill, I could barely walk for half a mile even holding on to the handrails. Now, I could jog an entire mile without breaking a sweat (cheating with cold climate lmao). Everything has a cumulative effect even down to how I physically move my legs. When I started out, I remember having lots of toe pain because I bruised my toes and it was because I more or less didn't truly know how to jog. There was so much of "this part of my body hurts because I didn't know what the fuck I was doing," which adds up as well. I didn't know that stretches serve a far more important role than showing off to people about how you could bend a certain part of your body a certain way.

The honest truth is that I thoroughly hated exercising for at least the first year or so and it was only through the sheer tiredness of having an unfit body for the vast majority of my life that I was able to power my way through to the point where exercising is less of a chore because my body has reached a point of fitness. After all this, I still wouldn't say that I genuinely enjoy it, but there are good days where I feel great after exercising and there are days where I go, "Yep, still a fucking chore to do. Why can't I just drink a glass tube of nanomachines that repair my body while I sit on my ass all day like before?" You take the good with the bad.